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Pesto Genovese
Product Insights
Pesto Genovese is a traditional Italian green pesto that belongs to the Fat and sauces and Dressings and sauces groups. It provides 640 kcal per 100 g, with 64.5 g of fat (including 9.5 g saturated fat), 12 g of carbohydrates, 2.5 g of sugars and 2.7 g of salt, resulting in a Nutri-Score of E and placement in NOVA group 3. The formulation contains walnuts, cheese, milk, egg protein and pine nuts, making it unsuitable for nut, dairy or egg allergies, and it includes the additives lysozyme (E1105) and citric acid (E330).
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Comparative Analysis
Compared with the average condiment, this pesto provides roughly ten times more fat (64.5 g vs 12.0 g) and saturated fat (9.5 g vs 2.1 g), about half the salt (2.7 g vs 5.0 g), far less sugar (2.5 g vs 11.0 g), and delivers almost four times the energy (640 kcal vs 183 kcal) per 100 g.
Ingredients
Genovese Basil PDO (35%), Extra Virgín olive oil (30%), _walnuts_, _cheese_, Grada Padano PDO (_milk_, salt, rennet, lysozyme, natural _egg_ protein), Pecorino Romano PDO _cheese_, garlic (2%), salt pine nuts (1%), acidity regulator: citric acid.
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